About the workshop

How does power operate through sound violence? How did colonial practices use sound as a tool of domination and control, from the barking of dogs to the mutilation of auditory organs? How do police and military forces use sound as an instrument of torture and repression?

What violences are generated when language is lost, erased, forbidden? What do the different speech practices and the ways in which voices distort silence imply? What would a space-time not traversed by such violence be like? What sounds would a hypothetical anti-colonial sound archive include?

Based on these questions and others that arise, during two sessions we will review a story by Octavia Butler, a sound and visual collage by Elysia Crampton and a short film by Lucrecia Martel, in the workshop Sonic Fictions. Conversations on Sound as a Tool for Struggle and Resistance, we will speculate on voice, speech, music and sound as tools of decolonial struggle and resistance, amplifying listening as a matrix of fictions to enter into their transformative codes. In a third session, we will record a podcast with the experience of the workshop.

The intention of the two-days workshops was to talk about the power of sound fictions that operate in dissent, that alter the modes of sensitive representation and hegemonic forms of enunciation by changing frames, scales, rhythms, building new appearances between the real and the speculative, the singular and the common, the human and the non-human, the (in)visible, (in)decible, the (in)audible, the (i)recognizable and its significance.

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